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The price of local government in 2017: City of Bunker Hill

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The City of Bunker Hill budget was $3.90 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $6,421 per household.

That's a decrease of 2.9 percent from 2016, when the city spent $4.01 million, or $6,610 per household.

Bunker Hill has 607 households and a population of 1,712.

Since 2001, the City of Bunker Hill budget has grown by 0.8 percent, from $3.87 million. The city population has fallen 52.4 percent over the same period, from 3,600.

Salaries accounted for 10.6 percent of city spending in 2017. Bunker Hill property taxpayers paid $414,102 for 10 full-time employees and five part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had eight full-time employees and eight part-time employees, and spent $489,291.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
1,712
$3,897,828
$414,102
10.6
15
$27,607
2016
1,800
$4,012,470
$407,065
10.1
15
$27,138
2015
1,800
$4,050,684
$509,295
12.6
15
$33,953
2014
1,800
$3,791,514
$475,284
12.5
25
$19,011
2013
1,800
$3,537,972
$476,641
13.5
25
$19,066
2012
1,800
$3,475,356
$456,094
13.1
25
$18,244
2011
1,801
$3,667,302
$456,971
12.5
25
$18,279
2010
1,801
$4,629,426
$448,427
9.7
25
$17,937
2009
3,600
$2,685,513
$481,601
17.9
19
$25,347
2008
3,600
$2,348,163
$460,782
19.6
19
$24,252
2007
3,600
$3,587,532
$535,440
14.9
19
$28,181
2006
3,600
$3,889,000
$532,686
13.7
19
$28,036
2005
3,600
$4,044,560
$517,626
12.8
19
$27,243
2004
3,600
$3,857,190
$535,573
13.9
19
$28,188
2003
3,600
$3,909,116
$534,141
13.7
19
$28,113
2002
3,600
$3,855,530
$500,601
13
19
$26,347
2001
3,600
$3,868,009
$489,291
12.6
16
$30,581

All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.

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